Brunner Mine Site

Since we have been reading the book "The Mines Afire" we were able to visit the Brunner mine site, Two Woman Mrs Meeres and Mrs Barbara take a day tour with fun activities around the Brunner mine site. First of all after we left school and had arrived at the Taylorville side we were all amazed at the 16f ft chimney. As we made our way across the Bridge we were able to see the old mine entrance just by the water. When we got there we were split up our group had to dress up into older clothes and shawls to take a photo. Then were did research about the mine and how coal is made (Coal was Peat that was underground as squashed with swamp). After we went on a walk to see the Memorial and the Old and the New Coke fire. At 1.00pm we went down to the Stilwater cemetery where we had a ceremony I had to read two pieces out of the poem Down the Brunner mine after we had to find out about the people and get the answers. Here are some photos 

Favourite Song Lamb Chop

This Week for Music Interchange we had to choose a song that you like and say why you like this song, I like the song Lamb Chop The song that never ends because it has a catchy rhythm to it and It is very annoying. 

Music Week 6 Term 1

For Term 1 every week on Tuesday we do Music Interchange where we learn about the notes and different beats. Today we had to create our own beat and write about different notes like a Quaver, Crotchet, Minim and Semibreve. Here is mine.

Term 1 Week 5

This week we have been doing a varies of different stuff like... 

Numeracy: This week for Numeracy i did good with my basic facts and i got my fastest time of the Term with 100/100 in 1 minute and 43 seconds. We were also working on our long division with I found it had dividing by 2 digits. 

Art: Over a few weeks we have been doing Art starting with 2 circles in the middle and drawing things that represent you coming out of the circles and around the page, we started on a A4 pieces if paper and we have moved onto the A3 paper and have starting to use pastel. 

Kapahaka: We have been practising our Kapahaka due to presenting at our school family fiesta but today as a practise we performed in front of the school at our assembly. 

Cricket: This week on Monday our school formed a team to play at a cricket tournament we went well winning our first game quite convincing against Paroa where my friend and I got to bat and we did really well. For our final we had a really good game but St pats were overall better on the day winning by seven runs. At the end we were given Kings tops worn by Henry Nicholls. 

Numeracy

This week for Numeracy we have been learning about the different triangles and their rules. Once we had researched the rules then we had to present them on a google drawing. 

Shapes

Today while we were doing our Maths Maintenance we came across a question about shapes, hardly anyone knew the right answer so we decided to learn. We were learning about shapes that are Quadrilateral like Rhombus, Parallelogram and Trapezium we had to write about the shape and its rules and put it in a google drawing.

Looking back at 2018

The Best thing about 2018 was Camp in Mistletoe Bay. We were active everyday doing fun activities and the scenery was beautiful. I really enjoyed the Marlborough Activity group that came and let us do Paddle Boarding, Archery , Orienteering and Building rafts. We had really good meals thanks to the Teachers and Parent help. 

Something I am proud of that I have done in 2018... 
That I went to the U13 basketball Trials when I thought that I wouldn't make it in and I got in and I was one of the best players with lots of shots going in (Two 3 pointers) and getting 104 steals. (30 more steals then everyone else) I also had a lot of fun attending the tournaments and making new friends from around the South Island. Next year since I am only 11 I have been asked to trial for U13s and U15s. 

My Goals for 2019 ..
My Goal is that I am going to work harder on my Maths and try to move two stanines up. And I am also going to keep reading during the holidays so I don't drop my Stanine and I improve.